Holiday Sucktacular

Certainly ranking in the top five shows ever, the Holiday Sucktacular was a really fun one for me. I’m not the biggest fan of Christmas and especially Christmas with the families. Everyone expects you to be at their celebration and if you travel home for the holidays you end up running yourself ragged just to say hi to everyone. Add in the heavy consumerist tones that reverberate through every single media vector and it the holidays become one giant suck.

So taking the piss, as it were, I tried to get a slight handle on things. The show is completely silly and irreverent. There’s a noticeable lack of technical glitches and I was able to drag out some tunes I’d been sitting on for nearly a year.

Here’s what I had to say about things at the time:

Fezboy! is on a mission to take the holiday season back from the commercial interests and bring it home to the silly, goofy, festive folks who make the season bright. To that end I bring you intriguing recorded oddities for your holiday listening pleasure. I hesitate to call it good, but I will call it interesting tossed in with a bit of fun.

As most of this was procurred from on-line sources, I offer links with this playlist. You can download your own copies, download the audio file of this show, or load up the podcast in your favorite podcasting application.

Playlist after the jump…

Artist Album Track Notes
Burl Ives How The Grinch Stole Christmas (TV special) Excerpt of the Grinch’s bio You can find an audio cap of the show here.
Combustible Edison I, Swinger The Millionaire’s Holiday A suitable festive theme song for this show. Well, to be fair, the only theme song for this show.
Monty Python Christmas in Heaven [snippet] A bit of a bumper from this track.
31d1 Chestnuts (roasting on an open fire) Metafilter is many things, one of which being a great community of diversely talented individuals. This thread is the source of three of this show’s gems.
The Three Stooges Down Through the Housetop Nifty novelty track with an option to download your own copy
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades Rubber Band Christmas Ring Rubber Bells A great find from WFMU’s always superior Beware of the Blog music blog. For your convenience, a direct link to this particular entry.
Root Boy Slim Christmas at K-Mart Self-promotion never hurt anyone. You can grab this file too.
  Swinging Barnyard Jingle Bell (Cows) Mooo-ove over yappy dogs. Jingle Cows!
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades Rubber Band Christmas God Rest Ye Merry Rubbermen  
Ella & Tom Santastic Rudolph’s Mixed Up Nose Dive Santastic is a boot album one might find online. Downloads, mirrors, and torrents are available.
DJ John Santastic The Christmas Massacre of Charlie Brown The absolute best mash on this album.
Haywood Banks Dearest Mr. Santa Claus Cute, materialistic, and ultimately ADD. The kid can be downloaded as well..
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades Rubber Band Christmas Rudolph the Rubber Nosed Reindeer Played this last week as a teaser. Now you get it in context!
Dysfunctional Family Band 1-800-Christmas Dysfunctional Family Band. heh. This track is, *suprise*, available online.
Bobby Gaylor Stop Giving Me Crap For Christmas Found this one while trolling p2p networks for Bobby Gaylor many months ago. No can find now. Email me if you want your own copy, yo!
DJ BC Santastic Turbo Sleigh  
Edna Pauli The Night Before Christmas If you have never checked out the 365 Days Project, you should. I harvest heavily myself. This track is on this page (December 24th).
PinkStainlessTail Jingle Rock Bell Check out the Metatalk thread linked above. This is the track that started it all and is linked from there.
Babs Gonzalez Be-Bop Santa [excerpt] One of the few tracks from my collection. Sorry, no linky.
Leon Redbone That Old Christmas Moon Downloaded with cruddy audio quality. Got to the station and found it on disc in the special Christmas section but it was too late to re-mix with a decent rip.
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades Rubber Band Christmas Feliz Rubberdad Not even unique instrumentation can save this song. Sorry, don’t like this song. Still didn’t stop me from playing it though…
Bob Rivers Walkin’ ’round in Women’s Underwear The meter fits so damned well. I love it. You can love your own copy too.
Michelle Cody Merry Christmas Elvis Another from the 365 Days Project. Same page as linked above. It can be yours!
Dysfunctional Family Band What If Elvis Was Santa? More dysfunctional family fun. Does your family put the f-u-n in dysfunctional? This link will.
Poj Masta Santastic Santarklaws  
The Beatles Fan Club Flexi Disc 1963 Christmas Greetings From The Beatles Norwegian Wood is a great site. You can find all the Christmas greetings recordings by The Beatles here.
Dudley Dogg, Jr. The Christmas Puppy Another from the 365 Days Project. This dog sound a bit closer to scary than adorable. Or at least quite sick.
Esquivel Christmas Music From the Space Age Bachelor Pad Frosty the Snowman  
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades Rubber Band Christmas Deck the Halls with Rubber  
They Might Be Giants Christmas Cards A loose mp3 file floating around on a hard drive. That’s all I know.
Looney Tunes Gang Have Yourself a Looney Christmas Obligatory link.
DJ BC Santastic The Nutbreaker  
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades Rubber Band Christmas Oh Rubber Tree  
Andrews Sisters   Jing-a-ling Not a novelty track per se but oh so kitschy. Thus great. You can nab yours too.
White Christmas I found this as a result of my time on Metafilter, but I’ll be damned if I can find the link now.
Les Paul & Mary Ford Jungle Bells Les Paul really gets me boppin’. Even at Christmas. Does he do the same for you?
John Denver & the Muppets A Muppet Christmas Little St. Nick One for my pops. A request from the Heartland. Sadly, I believe this album is now out of print.
Randy Holmes & Friends Hot Rod Sleigh Maybelline. Only more Christmasy. Find your copy under the tree.
Esquivel Christmas Music From the Space Age Bachelor Pad Here Comes Santa Claus  
Mrooney & Kwynn Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer Holiday Special Put One Foot in Front of the Other Here’s the file!
Thur Ravenscroft How the Grinch Stole Christmas You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch Chopped from the show linked in the first track of this show.
Martin Mull Santafly Yes!
The Royal Guardsmen Snoopy’s Christmas A sendoff of their hit, Snoopy vs. The Red Baron. Here’s a final gift link for you.